Subject: Presidents' IQ Factor

[molly]

I looked and could not find this posted.......

In a report published Monday, the Lovenstein Institute of
Scranton, Pennsylvania, detailed its findings of a four month
study of the intelligence quotient of President George W. Bush.

Since 1973, the Lovenstein Institute has published its research to the educational community on each new president, which includes the famous "IQ" report among others. There have been twelve presidents over the past 50 years, from F.D. Roosevelt to G.W. Bush, who were rated based on scholarly achievements:

1. Writings that they produced without aid of staff.
2. Their ability to speak with clarity, and several other
psychological factors, which were then scored using the
Swanson/Crain system of intelligence ranking.

The study determined the following IQs of each president as
accurate to within five percentage points.
In order by presidential term:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt 142,
Harry S Truman 132,
Dwight David Eisenhower 122
John Fitzgerald Kennedy 174,
Lyndon Baines Johnson 126,
Richard Milhous Nixon 155,
Gerald R. Ford 121,
James Earle Carter 175,
Ronald Wilson Reagan 105
George Herbert Walker Bush 98,
William Jefferson Clinton 182,
George Walker Bush 91

In order of IQ rating:

182 . . William Jefferson Clinton
175 . . James Earle Carter
174 . . John Fitzgerald Kennedy
155 . . Richard Milhous Nixon
147 . . Franklin Delano Roosevelt
132 . . Harry S Truman
126 . . Lyndon Baines Johnson
122 . . Dwight David Eisenhower
121 . . Gerald R. Ford
105 . . Ronald Wilson Reagan
098 . . George Herbert Walker Bush
091 . . George Walker Bush

The six Republican presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of 115.5, with President Nixon having the highest at 155. President George W. Bush rated the lowest of all the Republicans with an IQ of 91.

The six Democratic presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of 156, with President Clinton having the highest IQ, at 182. President Lyndon B. Johnson was rated the lowest of all the Democrats with an IQ of 126.

No president other than Carter has released his actual IQ (176).

Among comments made concerning the specific testing of President G. W. Bush, his low ratings are due to his apparently difficult command of the English language in public statements, his limited use of vocabulary <6,500 words for Bush versus an average of 11,000 words for other presidents>, his lack of scholarly achievements other than a basic MBA, and an absence of any body of work which could be studied on an intellectual basis.

The complete report documents the methods and procedures used to arrive at these ratings, including depth of sentence structure and voice stress confidence analysis.

"All the Presidents prior to George W. Bush had a least one book under their belt, and most had written several white papers during their education or early careers. Not so with President Bush," Dr. Lovenstein said. "He has no published works or writings, which made it more difficult to arrive at an assessment. We relied more heavily on transcripts of his unscripted public speaking."

The Lovenstein Institute of Scranton Pennsylvania think tank includes
high caliber historians, psychiatrists, sociologists, scientists in human behavior, and psychologists. Among their ranks are Dr. Werner R. Lovenstein, world-renowned sociologist, and Professor Patricia F.Dilliams, a world- respected psychiatrist

[Syrinx]

1. hoax

But probably close to the truth.

[Vickers]

2. Got Snopes?

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.htm

[hyphenate]

3. That's because it's an old hoax

It surfaced (that I know of) about late 2000 or early 2001. It might have actually been earlier than that.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.htm

[Dead_Parrot]

4. Edit: Ah, Snopes...

But Shrub is still a dumbass.

(I liked the fact that, when I clicked on the snopes link, I got an "are you stupid?" link to an online IQ test. Ahh, the irony...)

[nodictators]

5. "Lovenstein" was a bit of a tounge-in-cheek hoax, just for fun

I'd put Dubya at 85, and Poppy at 120.

Clinton is very intelligent, but almost no one has an IQ of 182 (or better), which would be about 5.5 standard deviations (15 points on most IQ tests) above the mean (100).

[rwork]

6. You forgot

President Gore.